Charge Dropped in Strauss-Kahn Case

By

Inti Landauro

Updated Oct. 2, 2012 1:17 p.m. ET

PARIS—French prosecutors said on Tuesday that they have dropped preliminary gang-rape charges brought in May against Dominique Strauss-Kahn because the alleged victim said she had consensual sex with the former International Monetary Fund chief.

Mr. Strauss-Kahn, 63 years old, still faces preliminary charges of aggravated pimping, as part of a broader judicial investigation into an alleged prostitution ring based out of the northern...